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Newspaper
Pickens Keowee Courier
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1900
Page
1
A local ad promotes Ladies and Children's jackets and capes at low prices, with kids reapers and suits highlighted. It invites customers to view carpets and carpet furnishing options, claiming a complete sample line and insider knowledge of the carpet trade.
State of South Carolina County of probate presents a notice of final settlement and discharge for the estate of Alexander Ramsay deceased. Executors Ramsay and kin conduct settlement proceedings at Wal Thalh Court in the county seat, with dates set in September. The filing shows heirs listed, legal citations, and a final contest window for interested parties. An unrelated anecdote about a bishop and a water incident appears as filler.
Confederate memorial work resumes with headquarters in New Orleans planning removal of Confederate dead from Northern cemeteries. Bodies to be reinterred in state churchyards or a national Arlington plot. Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond offered for reinterment. Separate blotter notes recount a Wellaton lynching and a Pierson assault case, followed by an advertisement for Boschee’s German Syrup health remedy and a Catholic University of Washington context.
A long OCR fragment blends a romantic hymn to mountains with divergent historical notes. It references the Land of the Sky, violet valleys, and heavenly imagery, then abruptly shifts to coal industry actions in Philadelphia and Reading, debates on drainage amendments in Mississippi, a Mississippi pardon case, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s coffin story, a Cotton Growers’ Convention in Columbia, and vaccine-like health cures. The result is a fragmented record mixing poetry, infrastructure politics, and local notices with scattered dates and names.
The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute has shipped farming tools, a cotton gin, and a boiler to Togo in Central Africa for experiments in cotton growing. A delegation will sail from New York on November 3 to join the project funded by the German government, forming the Gyodel farm in the German colony area.
A trunked body, with head and legs missing, was found in a bay at Floating Bridge pond in Lynn, Maca., reported to be discovered last week. Police are investigating the brutal discovery and seeking clues to identify the victim and motive.
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